Pickle-package



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No. 229,189. Patented June 22,1880.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE O. SANBORN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PlCKLE-PACKAG E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of, Letters Patent No. 229,189, dated June 22, 1880.

Application filed September 16, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE 0. SANBoRN, of Boston, in the county of Suflolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Package for Pickles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved cover or top for wooden vessels designed to contain pickles, preserves, &c., and to be used for shipping such goods.

The invention consists, first, in providing the wooden cover proper of the vessel with a central opening, and in closing the latter with a thin transparent-glass plate, which is secured by cement applied and held-in an undercut groove. The wooden cover proper forms a strong, stifl, and durable integral portion of said vessel, while the glass plate enables the contents to be easily inspected without allowin g ingress of air, and nevertheless is adapted to be easily detached whenever it becomes requisite to have access to or to remove the contents.

The invention further consists in providing a pivoted wooden guard for protecting the glass plate during shipment of the package.

In accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the vessel, taken on line A A,'=.Fig. 2, and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

The body of the vessel is constructed of wood, in the tapered form of those commonly employed for containing pickles, preserves, fish, &c. The wooden top or cover proper, B, has a central circular aperture, H, which is closed by a glass disk or plate, G. The edge of the latter rests on the horizontal shoulder or ledge F, formed by rabbeting the edge of the cover around said opening. The lateral wall of the rabbet is inclined or undercut, as shown, to adapt it to protect and prevent displacement of cement D, which is applied so as to fill the angular groove and cover the edge of the glass plate G. The form of the annular cavity or groove holding the cement D causes the latter, when it has hardened sufficiently, to serve as an annular wedge interposed between the plate G and the inclined side of the rabbet F.

The cement may be of any kind or nature suitable for the purpose.

By this combination of wooden apertured part B and small transparent plate G, which is sealed over the aperture, I provide the vessel with a cover or top which has nearly the rigidity of an imperforate wooden top of like dimensions, and yet enables the contents of the vessel to be easily inspected (to ascertain their kind, quality, or condition) by looking through the plate, withoutadmitting air to the interior; and when it is desired to remove the plate G it is only necessary to cut away the cement. The plate may afterward be used as a detachable lid to close the aperture, so as to prevent admission of dust, dirt, and flies or other insects.

To protect the glass plate G from being broken in handling the package, more especially during shipment of the latter, Iv protect it by a wooden guard-plate, I, which has a central opening to receive the knob of plate G, and is attached to the top B by means of a single screw, J. The knob to serves to prevent the guard-plate turning on the screw J.

What I claim is 1. The wooden vessel for containing pickles or preserves, 850., having the wooden top B, provided with a central aperture and rabbeted around the edge of same, and the glass plate G, secured over said aperture by cement held in an undercut groove, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the glass plate H and the wooden top B of the vessel, of the apertured guard-plate I, secured by a screw, J, as shown and described.

GEORGE O. SANBORN. Witnesses:

A. WIGGIN, WILLIAM TOMLDISON. 

